Re: Take a look at corrective update from the M$ Corporation

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Bill Garber (willy46pa@comcast.net) wrote:

: "Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
: news:rBdtb.46154$jy.25692@clgrps13...
: > Bill Garber wrote:
: > > That would surely be a good form of punishment.
: > > May I also add that to become a victim of such a
: > > virus distribution method, one MUST open the file
: > > and run it. Microsoft does announce periodically
: > > that they "do not" offer updates thru email or NGs
: > > and never will and not to open such supposed files
: > > that you receive in this way.
: > If you know about that then you're safe from that
: > route. Unfortunately I've had virus containing email
: > labeled "holiday pics" "new kitten" and so forth.
: > Sadly it's gotten to the point that many are afraid
: > to open any email with attachments even from friends
: > or relatives.
: >
: > Wayne

: Yes, I am safe since I have that knowledge, but I did
: in fact open one once, just to see what would happen,
: and my AV software made my machine flash in red and
: blue until I chose HEAL and then it closed, let me know
: that it was removed and cleaned, and went back to where
: it received the virus. Thank God for AVG, the best free
: AV software I've ever used. Been using it since 1997,
: and never had an infection that couldn't be cleaned.

If you must use email clients...why not use an email client that
downloads, but DOES NOT DECODE attachments until you explicitly ask it to?
Netscape Mail works that way...half a dozen years using Netscape Mail on
the Windoze box at work, and the anti-virus software never saw a virus
email, I never had any system "infections".  

I switched to Eudora just a few days before that mass email thing that
immeidately preceded Blaster came out, and because Eudora automagically
downloads and decodes all attachments whether I want them or not, I spent
an entire morning doing nothing but clicking NAV acknowledgement boxes. 
That day I switched back to running PINE on the UNIX host via telnet, and
so far, I haven't gone back to any PC client-side program.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
  Real Apples don't get Win32 viruses.  And how many Apple-8 and Apple-16
  viruses are there, anyway?  (first virus I ever saw was on an 8-bit Apple)
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